Conor O'Neill

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[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

Stupidly pleased with this.

My Lava Button for "I'm On a Call" now also kicks off call transcription using my Obsidian transcription plugin, via Home Assistant over OpenThread.

[RetroNewsNow @RetroNewsNow]

Today is #FridayThe13th

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

Built a nice automatic photo processing pipeline with ChatGPT to restore a bunch of old family photos.

The worst inputs are the cheap 1970s/1980s prints that all went a weird colour. Amazing improvement.

But not a huge amount it can do with B&W prints from 1930s and 1940s.

[Daniel Epstein-O'Dowd @DODubhda]

It is fairly remarkable that an ugly protest against an elderly former President (who has cancer) attending a ceremony for his son, has been met with a muted response if any from the Irish government.

This is a President who touted his Irish heritage and was an ally to Ireland when in office. Yet, that is all forgotten and a rabble of thugs who threw milk at him and clashed with Gardaí celebrate, without fear of reproach from their own political leaders!

I'll be honest, I think this is because the Irish political establishment are terrified of the wildfire they have unleashed.

The elevation of (and obsession with) the Palestinian cause, was meant to connect out-of-touch politicians with the youth and deflect from their widespread failures on infrastructure, housing, cost-of-living etc.

Instead, their wholesale endorsement and embrace of this movement (and all its extremities) has emboldened the extremists and threatened every inch of Irish society (from indoctrination of our schools, to the politicisation of medicine).

This is not about protests, this is about fear - that a government and establishment which adored Biden in office, would as quickly throw him to the wolves to avoid the confrontation with the forces they have unleashed...

There is a reason that in the halls of power in Brussels, in London, in Washington, Ireland's obsession with Palestine is talked about with such horror. Ireland can delude herself, but for anyone else the truth is plain to see...

Image source: Niall Carson/Press Association IRISH/Press Association via AP Images

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

I'm sure it's unrelated to the Microsoft outage but availability metrics on the Azure Foundry Sweden end-point have been a steaming pile of crap all week.

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

Me telling Head of Ops yesterday that the reason I put the runbooks on Microsoft was in case AWS goes fully down. 🤦‍♂️

Atlassian sales today, if they're any good: "So you know how you cancelled your Confluence sub?"

(Runbooks actually in git but I did build a lovely CMS for them)

[Tom🌶\(^-^)/🌶 @TomLawrenceTech]

I wonder if they are scrambling to find the phone numbers of those engineers they let go... #Microsoft365

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

Microsoft364

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

Really sad to see that Moonshine has shut down. Pete Warden has done some amazing things with AI for constrained devices.

It still blows my mind that we got his TensorFlow Lite Micro running on a $20 Chinese smartwatch for NodeConf EU 2019.

https://t.co/gURKs5UJcL

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

@thsottiaux Seamless moving between machines.

[Anne Marie Cronin Photography @am_cronin]

My Beautiful Beara Calendar available on my website, from My GALLERY or shops in Beara.

https://t.co/ge4xTH7EmX

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

See "Former CEO of Twitter" and think "who? when? what did they do? Nah I got nothing".

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

Intel could finally hire a CEO who knows how to do GPUs.

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

Jensen is out

Infidelity is obviously bad

But his contributions to American innovation and AI leadership cannot be overstated

Jensen started NVIDIA in 1993, where he pioneered the graphics chip market when this was non-obvious

Back in 2012, Ilya Sustkever trained AlexNet on NVIDIA GPUs — thereby creating the “deep learning” age

Jensen was one of the earliest to be AI pilled and he re-oriented NVDA towards AI in the mid 2010s — none of his competitors were even thinking this way

In 2020 he acquired Mellanox for $7B. This was an Israeli company that’s irrelevant for computer graphics but was essential for AI compute — wildly increasing the bandwidth between GPUs, necessary to build high performance AI server racks (rather than just good chips)

Once AI took off, Jensen was one of the biggest champions of the ecosystem

He was technical enough to be confident about where things were going, and had enough credibility as a founder CEO that he oftentimes made risky bets on next-generation technologies or companies that helped keep American AI on the efficient frontier

Recently he was investing in open source, photonics and robotics. These areas will all be feeling his loss

Earlier he was a champion of most of America’s leading AI companies when they were unproven

He made huge mistakes with his infidelity, which is tragic for his family and NVDA

But simultaneously he will leave a huge void, with the loss of a: technical, aggressive, founder-CEO

The American AI community needs to work double-time in an attempt to fill this void

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

If @vonderleyen or anyone in the @EU_Commission had a clue they'd immediately offer @JensenHuang the $200Bn InvestAI budget to do AI right in the EU.

America's loss could be our gain.

[Dyslexic_aDve @Dyslexic_aDve_]

"Touchdown"

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

What's John Sculley up to these days?

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

My silly little Obsidian To-Dos Sticky Note works on Mac and Omarchy now.

https://t.co/FK3ST47f1R

[tweet davidson @andyreed]

today’s kids are gonna grow up and be like “my daddy was a vibe coder” 💀

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

Speaking of China, where's my Qwen4-27B at?

[Conor O'Neill @conoro]

The whole Nvidia thing feels like a CCP pysop to damage America's AI advantage.

I guess if they really want to destroy Nvidia they could bring in Carly Fiorina or Leo Apotheker to run things.

Solution is a couple of "mistakes were made" press releases and then move on quickly.